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How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers

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225 points DonHopkins | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 22:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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decimalenough ◴[16 Apr 25 00:36 UTC] No.43700087[source]▶
Serious question: why would a dairy care about the cow's quality of life? The setup in the video looks far more expensive than what most dairies actually do, which is keeping cows tightly confined in stalls where they can't move at all.
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1. prawn ◴[16 Apr 25 03:35 UTC] No.43701187[source]▶
The smaller dairies at least would absolutely care about their animals. And helpfully, their priorities are often aligned: healthier animals would be producing more milk. The autonomy for cows also suits the farmers who'd otherwise be up early running the rotary mechanism, etc.

Couple of years ago, I filmed for dairy tech companies and found it fascinating seeing how robot milkers, collars and so on all worked together.